--- title: Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15 | daily.dev description: FreeBSD 15 introduces a new bridging implementation with native VLAN support, replacing the old per-VLAN bridge design. The new approach allows a single bridge... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-new-bridges-of-freebsd-15-culpd1o2p twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15 | daily.dev og:description: FreeBSD 15 introduces a new bridging implementation with native VLAN support, replacing the old per-VLAN bridge design. The new approach allows a single bridge... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/using-the-new-bridges-of-freebsd-15-culpd1o2p og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/culPd1O2P.png og:image:alt: Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15 **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary FreeBSD 15 introduces a new bridging implementation with native VLAN support, replacing the old per-VLAN bridge design. The new approach allows a single bridge to handle multiple tagged and untagged VLANs, dramatically simplifying rc.conf configuration. Key changes include the soft-deprecation of layer 3 addresses on bridge member interfaces (removed in FreeBSD 16), the required `vlanfilter` flag, and the need for `-vlanhwfilter` on epair devices. The post covers practical migration steps for VNET jails using a custom shell script to replace the old `jib` helper, and documents a workaround for bhyve VMs via vm-bhyve, which lacks native support for the new bridging model. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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